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Some of these crocks are restored in I personally don't see any problem with restoration especially
if you have a really really nice highly stylize cobalt decoration and you want to stabilize
a crock. It doesn't necessarily enhance the value of the crock but it can be repaired
and it is repaired well it's is very attractive to look at and it can maintain it's value.
It is done poorly it is not going to retain it's value. Not unusual to replace these ears
either on your crocks. I could show you a example of a crock that has been repair and
I particularly don't like the type of repair that was done on it when you look at a crock
and you see this crock has been actually repair and there's a distinct line of coloration
where the repair was done here and up here you can see this was all a repair. When you
are looking at a crock one way to try to tell whether or not a crock has been repair the
surface area here is really smooth and really clean and over the years a crock is going
to take on and get oxidize and there is going to be wear natural wear and natural discoloration
this is not natural. If you look at a crock like this you can see there is age marks here
and there is discoloration on this crock this is not something that you can manufacture
or reproduce. So when you look at this surface you know that dirt and accumulation over the
years. When you look at this surface it is clean and shiny and hitting and no dirt so
that is a good sign that the crock is either restored or it is reproduction. So that is
something to look for in you looking at getting restoration of buying something that is restore
of just to be able to recognize if it has been restored or if it is a reproduction.